Maria and her husband are well-known antique dealers who are from Uraguay. We first bought the chips from her at an antique show in West Palm Beach. They make several trips back to Uraguay and have returned with chips from Uraguay. I don't remember them ever having chips from Argintina... She told us the Whale chips are from there; thus my listing them as such on the webpage, but where exactly I do not know even though she has pinpointed other chips from her country directly to a casino and even explaining what some of the graphics stood for. I was under the impression they were Roulettes because of the different known colors.